Not only the King of Beers, it’s the King of Emergency Department visits. One third of injury visits to Level 1 trauma centers were alcohol related. Personally, I think that number is low. Of the patients who admitted drinking before their injury, 69% were male and 69% were black. Of the types of alcohol consumed before the injury, Budweiser ranked supreme. Malt liquor was consumed by 46% of patients before their injury while it only accounted for 2.4% of consumption in the general population. (.pdf file)
As a result of this study, the researchers suggested that alcohol content on malt liquors should be clearly labeled and that perhaps the availability of malt liquor should be limited … which just tells me that the researchers really have no clue about real world effects of their recommendations.

Welcome to the Abercrombie and Fitch emergency department, how may I help you? When payments for providing care get cut, some hospitals get creative in making more income. Ohio State University is one of them. Hey – think about the Ronald McDonald Childrens Hospitals. Not sure I disagree with the tactic, although it may tend blur the distinction between medical care and retail which I don’t think is a good thing.
Although personally I would think it was funny if some rich donor from another school purchased the naming rights for a hospital and made it the Michigan Wolverine Trauma Center.

Using Google Glass to record and live-stream surgery? The Reebok Chair of Orthopedics at Ohio State Wexner Medical Center is doing it. Check out the video.
Had you going for a second with that “Reebok” thing, didn’t I?

One final note from the ED community to the ED community. A third year emergency medicine resident at Cook County Hospital in Chicago was recently diagnosed with a rare form of liver cancer. Because it is so rare, there is no standard treatment, so insurance won’t cover any therapy.
If you can spare a few bucks to help or if you can attend a fundraising event, it would be appreciated.

The IL crew detasseling corn — great summer work for rural teens — was in an adjacent field when a crop duster spraying fungicide on a separate corn field mistakenly turned around over the detasseling crew. Monsanto did not own the field the crew duster was contracted to spray.

Parody: Dr.WhiteCoat, who incidentally wields three stethoscopes, refuses to review patient charts and has an involuted humor, said I don’t get paid to fact check. I’m kidding. He said is required not to fact check.

You got me doc.
Monsanto was “using” the field, it didn’t “own” the field. And I’m sure that Monsanto had nothing to do with the chemicals being sprayed, either. Just some random fungicide attack. Good thing we have Johnny on the Spot reporter wannabes like you to clarify things.
And I think you huffed too much of that fungicide. Seems like the humor center in your brain is misfiring and your grammar gene has been adversely affected.
If you can’t take a joke, you can read this instead.
Or is it that you work for Monsanto and you’re having difficulty with your polydactyly?